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inhibitory, a.|ɪnˈhɪbɪtərɪ|
Also 5 -ore.
[ad. med.L. inhibitōri-us (see inhibit v. and -ory); in Caxton a. obs. F. inhibitoire (15th c. in Godef.).]
1. Of the nature of an inhibition; prohibitory.
1490Caxton Eneydos xxii. 77 Her feble legacion, the whiche he wold not graunt, by cause that they dyuyne commaundementis inhibytores..were contrarie to the same. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. x. §39. 641 The Scots hauing made their way in the Court of Rome, procured inhibitory Letters from the Pope. 1642Sir E. Dering Sp. on Relig. 61 Let therefore this inhibitory Statute against Bishops holding the secular jurisdiction of temporall Lordships stand..irrepealeable. 1701G. Hooper Narr. Lower Ho. Convoc. Vind. 37 This Original Right of the Archbishop, Inhibitory of our Liberty..is the very Point in Question. 1823Lingard Hist. Eng. VI. 231 That Clement.. would soon be compelled to issue an inhibitory breve, forbidding all archbishops or bishops, courts or tribunals, to give judgment in the matrimonial cause of Henry against Catharine. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. v. 417 An inhibitory mandate was a natural consequence of the conference at Calais.
2. That inhibits or checks anything; producing inhibition. inhibitory nerve (Physiol.), a nerve of which the stimulation represses or diminishes action.
1855H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (1870) I. 64 A system of nerves which diminish action—inhibitory nerves as they are called. 1879W. James Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 129 Positivism takes a middle ground, and with a certain consciousness of the beyond, abruptly refuses by an inhibitory action of the will to think any further. 1882Med. Temp. Jrnl. 97 The hypothesis that alcohol narcotises the inhibitory nerve of the heart. 1883T. L. Brunton in Nature 1 Mar. 420 Several authors have pointed out the analogy between inhibitory phenomena in the animal body and the effects of interference of waves of light or sound. 1901B. Hollander Revival of Phrenol. i. 36 The frontal lobe, as the seat of the reasoning faculty, is an inhibitory apparatus against the lower and more instinctive natural impulses. 1902Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. XXIV. 306 The inhibitory actions in question are quite closely confined to reactions in which free oxygen is involved. 1923Jrnl. Physical Chem. XXVII. 325 The inhibitory power of water in the esterification of acids in alcoholic solutions..represents a complex case of the Titoff type of inhibition. 1944G. B. Shaw Everybody's Pol. What's What? xxiii. 205 Some [sc. conditioned reflexes] are too cruel for civilized people to tolerate, and from being what Pavlov calls excitatory have become inhibitory. 1959Metabolism VIII. 101 Calcium gluconate exerted a significant inhibitory effect on insulin degradation. |